Delta Tables

Browse, inspect, and manage native Delta Lake tables across all zones and schemas.

Category: catalog

Description

## Overview The Delta Tables page is the primary catalog browser for native Delta Lake tables managed by the DeltaForge engine. Data engineers, analysts, and administrators use this page to explore the full zone/schema/table hierarchy, inspect column definitions, review version history, and preview table data. Because Delta Lake tables support ACID transactions and versioned storage, this page exposes time-travel capabilities that allow users to query or preview data as of any committed version. Table properties such as partition columns, file statistics, and storage location are also surfaced here. ## Key Features - **Table listing with zone/schema hierarchy.** Browse all Delta tables organized by zone and schema. Expand or collapse hierarchy nodes to locate tables quickly. Search and filter controls narrow the list by name or tag. - **Column browser with types and metadata.** Select a table to view its full column schema, including column names, data types, nullability, and any associated comments or tags. - **Version history and time travel.** View the commit log for any table, showing version numbers, timestamps, operation types, and row-level metrics. Select a historical version to preview data as it existed at that point in time. - **Table properties viewer.** Inspect Delta table properties including partition columns, table format version, storage path, and custom key-value properties set via ALTER TABLE. - **Data preview.** Load a sample of rows from the current or any historical version of the table. The preview respects column-level masking policies when applicable. ## Workflow 1. Open the Delta Tables page from the Catalog sidebar. 2. Expand a zone and schema node to locate the target table, or use the search bar. 3. Click a table to open the detail panel showing columns, properties, and version history. 4. Browse the column list to review data types and metadata. 5. Select a version from the history panel to time-travel and preview historical data. 6. Use the context menu to open the table in the Query Explorer, Data Transform, or Lineage views.

See Also

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